Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, Harvard lined up against perhaps its hardest opponent of the season, Stanford, and suffered a 3-0 beating. Two days later, the Crimson faced one of the weaker teams on its schedule, Columbia, and came away with a satisfying 2-0 victory...
...intricate 11th-hour compromise that spread some school cuts over two years -- despite the objection of major education groups -- the Governor was judged to have won most everything else in his battle for an all- cuts, no-new-taxes budget in line with what he called "our hardest times since the Great Depression." With two years to go before his own re-election challenge, he outtoughed legislators who ultimately cringed at possible voter reaction against them this November. "For the first time in my 10 years here, I was embarrassed to be a member of the legislature," admitted Republican senator...
...Florida, which took the hardest hit, local officials were blaming Washington for the slow response, while federal bureaucrats retorted that the state had failed to ask formally for military help. Not until Transportation Secretary Andrew Card met with Chiles and an angry Florida congressional delegation on Thursday did Bush move beyond motion and into action. That night he ordered the Pentagon to rush everything from food to field hospitals to south Florida. But by then, four days had passed. Bush, like nearly everyone else, had badly underestimated the damage...
...jungle out there. Beavers, for so long considered one of the animal kingdom's hardest workers, are proliferating faster than they can paddle. According to a Colorado environmental group, Wildlife 2000, their numbers have swelled to more than 6 million, maybe as many as 12 million. Animal-rights activists have crippled the fur trade, and killing helpless animals for sport is no longer fashionable. The result is that these mindlessly multiplying creatures are chewing up more trees than anyone can count. It is foolhardy to suggest that the anti-fur-coat folks should now retreat and give thousands of women...
...sheer force of intellect. But not last week. He spoke coherently, but a close read of his comments considered alongside his record suggests too little defense and only a halfhearted offense. At the end of our session the President invoked his mother's advice: "Do your best, try your hardest." Sadly -- and inexplicably, since there is much he can legitimately trumpet -- for 40 minutes Bush did neither...